Scheduled for September 27, the Berlin Marathon will not take place. The threat of the coronavirus pandemic has prompted German organizers to follow their American counterparts who have also canceled the 2020 edition in New York. Given the ban on any gathering of more than 5,000 people in Berlin until October 24, organizers have been working on other options to postpone the event. But the attempt to develop, with local authorities and experts, a health protocol to protect runners was unsuccessful.
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“As hard as we have worked, it is currently not possible to organize the marathon, indicate the organizers on their site. Fun, good humor, health and success are the hallmarks of the Berlin Marathon but we are not able to guarantee all of this at this time.Berlin is traditionally the meeting place for tens of thousands of runners from all over the world.
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Since 2003, the last seven marathon world records have been achieved on the Berlin course, which is flat and particularly favorable. The current best mark belongs to the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, in 2 h 01 m and 39 seconds, since September 2018. The last winner in 2019, the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele, had failed with 2 seconds of the world record at the end of ‘a final of anthology.
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